September 23, 2005
Basic Training For Anti-Hackers
An intensive summer program drills students on cybersecurity skills
It is 8 a.m. on a Monday, and war is about to break out. Four teams of a dozen college students, most dressed in camouflage fatigues, gather on a former Air Force base with a limitless supply of Mountain Dew and bagels as they get ready to spend two days attacking each other.
This is no ordinary war game. The weaponry is an arsenal of laptop and desktop computers, and the students' goal is to hack the other
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